Ethnic groups (2057 Subjects)
Tatar of Astrakhan area (Nagoy tribe) travels in traditional vehicle.
Circassian prince. Circassian man.
Observatory from which the Tatars of Kuban watched the movements of their Kirkassian neighbours. According to the author, in summer a fire was lit in these nests to keep the mosquitoes away.
View of Cimmerian Bosporus or Strait of Kerch withn the port of Kerch (anc. Panticapaeum), Crimea. In the background, the coast of Phanagoria, today Taman peninsula, Russia.
Russian guard at Crimea.
Family of Tatar nomads spends the night at the steppe.
Interior of the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.
The Castalian Spring in Delphi.
Ancient funerary monuments at Thermopylae.
Landscape at Lake Volvi.
Romani of Banat, historical region of Central Europe (shared between Hungary, Serbia and Romania) washing gold.
Frontispiece with themes related to the author's journey.
Fountain at the remains of church near the sea walls of Topkapi palace in Istanbul. According to the author, the Greek Orthodox of Istanbul would come to the fountain on the feast of the Transfiguration. Several of them would bury themselves in the sand and then drink from the holy fountain, thus realizing a symbolic transfiguration.
The author's travelling companions study a mummy at a pyramid of Memphis in Egypt.
The author travelling in Egypt on a camel. In the foreground, Arab companions of the author give alimony to a man in need.
Privateers attacking a ship.
Ways in which captives are tortured in Egypt.
View of the catacombs of Alexandria.
Preparation of wine at Rosetta, Egypt.
Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.
The lunar eclipse which the author watched during his stay at Mosul. In the foreground a mullah explains to a Western European, possibly the author himself, the high importance of this phaenomenon to Muslims.
A raft crosses Tigres river at Mosul, Irak.
Game of Persian cricket at a public square in Isfahan, as watched by the author.
Preparation of lime for construction purposes, Persia.
A prisoner is executed by torture on the orders of Shah Abbas in Persia. On the right, a Portuguese merchant turns his head away from the horrendous sight.
Rock-cut Persian mausoleum at Çehel-minar near Şiraz, southwestern Iran.
Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.
The mausoleum of Muslim saint Shah Alam in Ahmedabad, India.
Preparation of palm wine, known as tari in Hindi and as tadi to British colonists, out of coconuts.
Woman bandit on the route from Agra to Delhi.